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...Scorning a steering wheel, handling the runner ropes with the iron hands of a jockey, he zipped through the first run in 1 min. 18.49 sec., the second in 1 min. 18.96 sec.-enough to give him a ⅓sec. lead over Rinaldo Ruatti in the No. 1 Italian sled...
Silent as a Ghost. The G.M. sleds resemble the Podars about as much as a Corvette does a Corvair. The innovations include shock absorbers and sports-car-type "direct" steering (v. the Podar's rope-controlled runners). In trial runs at Lake Placid, N.Y., last month, a two-man G.M. sled beat the best time of a heavier, four-man Podar -and the four-man G.M. was faster yet. At St. Moritz last week, astonished European bobbers nicknamed the two man sled "the Ghost" because its rubber-seated runners merely whispered over the ice-while the Podars clattered...
...Stalingrad the previous year. Werth is at his best in eyewitness accounts of Leningrad or of his tour (in -40° C. weather) through the Stalingrad area just after the mop-up there. The item about Russian children using the stiffly frozen body of a German soldier as a sled makes a one-sentence summary of the horror...
...whereabouts is a Statue of Liberty in the harbor-and tries to open a coffeehouse. He finds a promising firetrap on Bleecker Street, signs a lease that looks like a Dead Sea Scroll, and begins to clear out the debris, among which he uncovers Citizen Kane's sled, in scribed "Rosebud...
...forget that in the Olympics it is America against all the other nations of the world, and that in many events we are trying to buck others at their own game. For example, these were the first Olympics to have racing on a small sled which the French called a luge, the Germans a rodel and the English a toboggan, which it isn't. Ours was a pickup team of utter greenhorns. It would have been preposterous to expect them to beat racers who have been riding these things since infancy...